Stripe’s 2022 annual letter

We think we can help grow the internet economy in four primary ways-# Increasing the rate of new business creation by lowering the cost an$ complexity of  getting started -# Helping established enterprises adapt their business mo$els to the internet-# Increasing cross-border commerce by simplifying and standardizing the complex  internat... See more

Stripe partners with millions of the world’s most innovative businesses. These businesses are the result of many different inputs. Perhaps the most important ingredient is “ideas.”

Stripe Press highlights ideas that we think can be broadly useful. Some books contain entirely new material, some are collections of existing work reimagined, and others... See more

-Stripe processed $640 billion+ in payments in 2021, up 60% - 1,400 new companies (and 100 nonprofits) joined Stripe each DAY last year- 100 businesses every day passed the milestone of $1 million in lifetime sales on Stripe.- 7000 on staff now

Stripe’s slogan, “Increase the GDP of the internet” points at a far loftier vision and more ambitious goal than the mundanity of payment processing. And this is reinforced in both much of Patrick Collison’s projects outside of Stripe as well as initiatives like Stripe Press.

Stripe has a very, very long time horizon. If you know where you’re going over time, you can reason clearly about which specific asks are one-offs vs indicative of emerging trends relevant to many users. We talk a lot about building multi-decade abstractions. That long time horizon comes from the top, and it’s in the culture.